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The moral of the story is that not every dispute in Chabad is about pure ideology. Twenty-three years ago, I was forced to resign as Chabad rabbi to the Jewish students at Oxford University. The reason: I had some 5,000 non-Jewish student members of our organization,

This Sunday, I will be flying to Israel immediately after the gala dinner of our organization, the World Values Network. I am going to attend the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem Day, when Israel reunified Jerusalem in the 1967 war, affirming the Jewish people’s rebirth in their ancient capital after the devastation of the Holocaust. President Donald Trump will be

Israel is trying everything to recover his body, because the Israeli people demand that their children must always come home. By far the most shocking thing I heard at The Jerusalem Post Conference in New York was former IDF chief of staff Dan Halutz saying that Syrian President Bashar Assad was good for Israel, by

Yesterday, insofar as anyone can recall, was the first-ever White House commemoration of Israel’s birth as a nation. It was a top-of-the-line, incredible Israel Independence day celebration, attended by many of America’s leaders paying homage to the Jewish state. Here you had the Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, representing himself and President

As for those terrorists who never made it home, they have streets, schools, parks, and competitions named after them. I wonder what the reaction of steel-workers in Pennsylvania, coal miners in West Virginia, and produce workers in California would be to the news that their tax money is directly funding Palestinian terrorism. It’s been known

When he ran for office, the President promised to make America more discerning in its dispersal of foreign aid. Well, now he’s got somewhere to start. Every year, the United States gives the Palestinian Authority (PA) a fluctuating mega-sum of money hovering somewhere around the amount of four hundred million dollars. As it turns out, the

I wonder what the reaction of steelworkers in Pennsylvania, coal miners in West Virginia and produce workers in California would be to the news that their tax money is directly funding Palestinian terror? It’s been known for some time now that the Palestinian Authority celebrates terror and lionizes those who perpetrate it. There was no

Why did God make the Nile run red with blood as the first plague in Egypt? So that the Egyptians would never be able to deny that they had perpetrated a genocide of Jewish children in the river. Once again, I have found myself lost amid the remains of Auschwitz. The last time I was

I have no doubt that President Barack Obama was well-intentioned when, rather than enforcing his “red line” in August of 2013 after Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad gassed to death more than 1000 innocent Arabs, he chose not to attack Assad but to forge an ultimately fraudulent deal to remove Assad’s chemical weapons instead. But intentions don’t

For two days I was in a news blackout, due to the Passover holiday. Then the festival ended, and I saw that my inbox was filled with media asking me to comment on Sean Spicer’s remarks about Hitler, poison gas and the Holocaust. As a rabbi I can’t broadcast on any Jewish holy day. But